MAKE YOUR OWN PADDLE
With Classic Straight Shaft Paddle Templates from Ashes
Second Edition
PADDLE TEMPLATES – FREE DOWNLOAD
So What’s Different with the Second Edition?
- We’ve softened the shoulders of each model, effectively moving the center of effort lower on the blade, making them slightly more efficient for the same surface area.
- I’ve hardened the corners a tad making them catch a little earlier and release a little later, giving the paddler a tad more control.
- The grips have been widened and lengthened providing more feel and finesse on one hand, and more options for palm and finger placement on the other hand.
- The file has been cleaned up considerably as at some point in the last bit the original was corrupted and the occasional printed file would come back wonky.
- And lastly, to my eye, they’re much much prettier!
Custom Paddles
from the designer
I don’t make paddles. I mean, not unless somebody asks me to. And not if they don’t have something to say with them. The paddles I a make are made of materials that mean something to their owners.
I think I’d like to make a paddle from somebody’s mother’s discarded dresser or a half rotted garden bench.
When I started this endeavour I thought that perhaps somebody would ask me to build a boat from wood recovered from a cottage renovation or apple tree but there aren’t a whole lot of folks who can afford a boat. Almost everybody though can afford a paddle.
HOW TO
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